Africa: Climate Change - 'Perhaps We Should Just Sign'

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Countries are quietly signing up to the Copenhagen Accord, but commitments on emissions cuts and funding remain unclear.

"We have to decide by this Sunday whether we sign the Copenhagen Accord, or not. If we don't, we have no access to the 30 billion dollar quick startup fund," Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula told a gathering of businessmen in Windhoek at the end of January. "Perhaps we should just take it.'

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